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Originally Posted by Vman455
Just one example, the 2020 Hyundai Elantra:
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I wonder if on cars like the 2020 Elantra, there
is a move towards getting more air over the roof and less around the sides? I'd expect such an approach to reduce A pillar trailing vortex strength, and with the very curved roof of the Elantra, you'd expect pressures to be low across pretty well all of it ie they'd be making use of a characteristic that otherwise is all negative (lots of lift forces).
As I said, nothing like that though in the tech literature - that I've seen anyway.
I've been looking at a few Hyundais and they do look aerodynamically very well developed (eg rear transverse muffler angled to act as diffuser on one model). Didn't a whole bunch of Audi engineers go to Hyundai a while ago?